December 2019 – Congress approved a package of spending bills that includes Fiscal Year 2020 funding for DOE. Congress reached an agreement that will provide increases to the Office of Environmental Management (EM), Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Office of Science, and more. President Trump is expected to sign the bill before current federal government funding expires on December 21.
DOE spending will increase nearly $3 billion for a total of $38.5 billion in FY 2020. Of that amount, defense environmental cleanup funding will be increased $231 million for a total of $6.2 billion—the highest level of funding in at least 10 years. Link to Bulletin
